

It had a curved rosewood fingerboard and was refretted so often that, after a while, it could not be refretted anymore. It was not as sometimes stated a D width nut (D width was 1 7 8 inch the standard width was B which is 1 5 8 SRVs guitar had a standard B width of nominally 1 5 8 ). It featured a left-handed tremolo block even though Vaughan was right-handed. Fender Srv Stratocaster S Full Winds ForĮach string had three full winds for the best angle at the bone nut. String height was measured to be 564 on the high E string and 764 on the low E string.

The guitar featured frets that measured 0.110 wide by 0.055 when new, similar to Dunlop 6100 fretwire. The fingerboard radius of Number One when new would have been 7.25 like most Fender instruments made before the 1980s, 9 but after refretting the fingerboard multiple times the radius evolved into a 9 or 10 radius in the upper registers. The distinctive cigarette burn on the headstock comes from an incident when Vaughan had left a burning cigarette tucked under the sixth string for too long while playing. Vaughan used the guitar on all five of his studio albums and on Family Style. Fender Srv Stratocaster S Full Winds For.
